Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-02


degrees above zero at Chicago Monday
morning. At Galena, ILL.,, it was ten de
grees below. Ia many places the mercury
fell over 40 degrees in twent! four hours.
The chief of police of Kansas City has
ordered his men to "shoot any anarchist
who resists arrest" There are as few
loud mouthed socialists in Kansas City
there are said TO be snakes in Ice
land.
The prohibition alliance of South Da
kota will call q conference to be held at
Huron December - to arrange for car
rying out the provisions of the local op-
tion law and to see that the next legisla
ture is for prohibition.
CHISA has applied to the army authori.
ties for officers to instruct and organize
the Chinese army, and the emperor has
consented to allow officers to be there
Many have volunteered for the work
though the salary is small.
tho effect Of tho strained relations be
tween Germany aud Russia. F,ontier
restaurants refuse, in many cases, TO serve
Prussians, and shopkeepers in tho larger
cities of Russia refuse to handle German
goods.
GEEEKs are coming to this country in
great numbers, says our consular agent
at the Piraeus, the port of Athens. Most
of them haven't II penny with whicn to
bless themselves, and their idea is TO
make little fortunes, and then go back to
Greece and loaf for the rest OF their lives.
It is the Chinese idea over again.
GEoRGIA's proud boasts are that it was
the first state in the Union to employ
women as clerks in the Legislature, and
the first to give n collegiate diploma to a
woman. Let it be as considerate of its
prisoners rs it has been of the weaker
sex, and break up the nefarious convict
camps.
ROMAN CATHOLIC congress, represent
ing all English speaking communities,
will be held at London next summer.
The topics to be discussed are; The
churchs attitude toward education;
greater cooperation of the laity in the
work Of the church, and the diffusion of
Catholic literature among the masses.
INImAToHY steps have been taken in
Boston looking to the incorporation of
tho Postal Automatic Telegraph com
pany with the objeo! of building Il tele
graph limo across the continent from
Now York to San Francisco. The com
pauy is to have a capital stock Of $1,000, |
600, with authority to increase the same |
to S2O,O0O,O
Tur attempt OF German clique in
st. Louis to force upon the public schools
special instruction in their language ut
an annual expenco of 100000 dollars a
year, has been overwhelmed by the voters
in school board election. mo language
but the English should be taught n pub
lio expense in tho primary and district
schools was the platform adopted 10y
majority of over 1000. All similar at
tompta to create race classes and foster
raeo prcjudices deserve similar fate.
Tar handful Of knights of Labor who
have thus far seeded from the order are
planning conventions to stir up senti
ment against Mr.. Powderly. They will
try to freeze him out by pursuuding the
assemblies to hold bnck assessments.
There ia much moro noiso than substance
To THE revolt at present. The reason is
plain. Beer drin king sympathizors with
anarchists are at the head of il. They do
not like the general Master Workmans
position on these two subjects.
TuE railroads of Illinois have voluntar
lily begun TO lower local rates within the
state from 25 to 40 per cent. This ia one
of the indirect results of the interstate
act, which docs not directly effect the
traffic within state boundaries. Three
or four months ago the Same railroads
declared to the state commission that it
would be ruinous to lower their rates to
the level of the interstate rates. After
fair trial they have found it ruinous to
maintain excessive local charges, which
were discouraging this sort of traffic and
diverting jobbing to outside points.
THE anarchist agitation has given
veritable boom to tho American party in
New York city and vicinity. Nearly TO-
600 members have already been drummed
up in the metropolis alone. Business
men inactive in politics compose the
bulk of the recruits. Ex-United States
Treasurer James Gilfillan is treasurer of
the provisional committee. An appeal
is to be made to the working classes, and
they will join in large numbers, it is
thought, when they learn that the move
ment is against the importation of pau
per labor,
WrrH England on the verge of great
social revolution, rs all signs indicate,
there was never time when sensation
had such vogue in London as now. One
succeeds another, and the sort is little
matter. The latest excitement (as we
gather from Edmund Hates's letter in
the New York Tribunel is over woman
from Australia in the novel character
of gold finder at home and promoter
of mining companies in London. They
call her the Lady of the Nugget: She
holds her own, says Yates, with speculs-
tors and fnanciers, and has successfully
floated company named after Midas.
Withal she is called charming and
that is undoubtedly the faculty she wants.
Not the pied piper of Hamelin himself
could draw the children with surer magic
than any one who shakes q glitt sring
bait can draw the London world. 1t Is q
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